Join Blossom!
We are a U.S.-based company with over 20 years of experience dedicated to enhancing the satisfaction of credit unions and their members. We are building the next-generation technology layer for credit unions. www.blossom.net
We're looking for a curious and detail-oriented Platform Engineering Lead who is eager to grow in the fintech space. If you have some experience working with cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, or platform tooling and want to own a real platform from day one with mentorship and a team that will help you level up this role is for you.
About the Role
We're looking for a curious and detail-oriented Platform Engineering Lead who is eager to grow in the fintech space. If you have solid experience with cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, and platform tooling and you want to own a real platform function from day one with a team that will help you level up this role is for you.
You'll be the technical owner of Blossom's platform scalability, observability, deployment automation, and operational reliability. This is a hands-on leadership role where your work directly enables the growth of new Credit Union deployments and the health of everything running in production.
What You'll Do
- Own platform scalability, reliability, and observability across Blossom's cloud infrastructure.
- Lead the adoption of multi-cluster architecture initiatives and tenant provisioning automation.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, environment automation, and internal operational tooling.
- Design and operate the observability platform (monitoring, alerting, dashboards) to ensure full visibility into platform health.
- Reduce operational risk and blast radius during incidents through proactive reliability engineering.
- Drive the CI/CD Modernization Program and Platform Scalability and Reliability Program.
- Collaborate with Engineering, DevOps, and Customer Success to support customer operational enablement.
- Own architecture documentation and governance for operational systems.
- Apply AI-assisted engineering practices to improve team productivity and platform operations.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in AWS cloud environments.
- 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Operations.
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform (Infrastructure as Code).
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
- Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript for internal tooling and platform development.
- Solid PostgreSQL administration and performance optimization skills.
- Experience building observability platforms using Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, ECS, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Telecommunications, or related field.
Key Skills
- Technical Leadership & Strategic Problem Solving
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Incident Management
- AWS Architecture & Cloud-Native Design
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- GitHub Actions CI/CD
- Observability & Monitoring
- JavaScript / TypeScript Development
- PostgreSQL Administration
- Operational Automation
- Customer Operational Enablement
- Documentation & Architecture Governance
Nice to Have
- Experience in fintech, banking software, or regulated SaaS environments.
- Familiarity with cooperative or credit union operations.
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows.
- Previous experience in a tech lead or staff engineer role.
Perks
- 100% Remote Work
- Mentorship from experienced product and banking professionals
- Multicultural collaboration with teams in Colombia and the U.S.
- Real exposure to the American financial market
- Growth path into senior product or leadership roles as the product scales
Apply Now!
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in AWS cloud environments
- 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Operations
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript for internal tooling and platform development
- Solid PostgreSQL administration and performance optimization skills
- Experience building observability platforms using Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Amazon ECS, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Telecommunications, or related field
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows
- Experience in fintech, banking software, or regulated SaaS environments
- Previous experience in a tech lead or staff engineer role
What We Do
Blossom is a growing ecosystem of fully integrated core banking, digital banking and payments solutions. Born in the cloud and reimagined with credit unions to replace outdated systems and patchwork tools, one vendor at a time. Founded in 2020, Blossom acquired HomeCU in the same year, went live with its new platform in 2023 and acquired CUProdigy in 2024. Today, the company serves close to 400 credit unions, thousands of employees and millions of members. Headquartered in Ogden, UT and Coral Gables, FL, Blossom is on a mission to build the first intelligent banking system that puts credit unions at the center of their members' financial lives, helping local communities thrive and transforming the way people experience money.
